Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood debut as a Westinghouse saleslady after a TV career spanning Studio One's nine years in Manhattan and 308 dresses of her own. Aglow in a white linen sack with appliqued taffeta flowers, Betty brightened one commercial with Guest Star Conrad Nagel, who told how a washer-dryer combination had lightened his load at Malibu Beach. "With as many as ten guests in the house," said Nagel, "you can imagine how many sheets and pillowcases we had, not to mention towels." Studio One's commercials were so colossal ("We used every single bit of the whole studio...
...Fixit. "This here runaround" is a phrase instantly recognizable to hundreds of thousands of frustrated U.S. householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises...
...hard to service. The company found one hand iron that took 40 minutes to take apart. Some modern toasters are riveted clear around, require $2.50 worth of labor before the serviceman can even get to the works, much less repair them. Many so-called "built-in" ranges and washer-dryer combinations are nothing more than standard, movable appliances with the casters removed, made to be serviced from the rear. When built in, they cannot be serviced without tearing them out from the wall. Says Detroit Edison's Service Boss William R. Milby: More companies should "create a design with...
Dehydration. In Pampa, Texas, D. F. Gilliam was tossed into jail for 90 days for trying to stuff his wife and daughter into an electric clothes dryer...
...Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), carries built-in advertising. At one point, the protagonist rhapsodizes: "Old lecher with a love on every wind, and you young ones too, running in pimpled packs after the teen-age bitch with her perfumed heat, and you, too, pretty matron, under the hair dryer, this is your book...